Comparison

RecipeChef vs Tablée

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

RecipeChef

Organize all your favorite recipes in one digital cookbook. Add your own dishes with photos, create custom categories, and easily search by ingredients or dietary needs. Generate shopping lists and plan your weekly meals.

Highlights
  • Add custom recipes and photos
  • Organize recipes by categories
  • Search recipes by ingredients
  • Generate categorized shopping lists
  • Plan weekly meals
  • Import recipes from other apps
Features
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Store all your favorite recipes in one place! Add your own recipes and photos, find the perfect recipe, add ingredients to your shopping list, plan your meals for the week, and a lot more! ADD YOUR FAVORITE RECIPES RecipeChef is a recipe manager. It's a great way to organize your recipes. • Add your own recipes and photos. • Create your own categories (main dish, dessert, spicy, barbecue, vegan, and so on). • Search your recipes by ingredients, prep time, calories, and more. • All your recipes are stored in one place, easy to search and always available wherever you go! SHOPPING LIST • Add ingredients and other items to your shopping list. • Your shopping list is automatically sorted by category (fruit, vegetables, meat, seafood, condiments, and so on). • You can customize the order of the categories to put them in the same order as the aisles of your grocery store. This way, your grocery list will always be displayed in the correct order. FIND THE PERFECT RECIPE • Quick Recipes Are you in a rush? RecipeChef can filter your recipes to find recipes in 15 minutes or less. • Inspire Me Don't know what to eat today? Tap Inspire Me and RecipeChef will suggest random recipes from your collection. • Search by Ingredient Do you fancy a strawberry cake? Do you only have a few ingredients in your fridge? You can use RecipeChef to find recipes with specific ingredients. • Easy Recipes Are you looking for easy recipes? RecipeChef can search your recipe collection to find recipes with 5 ingredients or less. EVEN MORE FEATURES • Adjust ingredients and quantities It's easy to increase or decrease quantities. No need for a calculator. You can easily adjust quantities for 1, 2, 3, 4 people for example. • Meal planner Save time, plan your meals in advance! • iOS Widgets Add iOS widgets directly on your home screen to see your next meal at a glance and quickly access your recipes. • Import recipes from other apps If you currently use another recipe organizer and want to switch to RecipeChef, RecipeChef can import files from CookBook, Crouton, Mela, My Recipe Box, Paprika, Pestle and Recipe Keeper. FREE VERSION You can download RecipeChef for free. The free version lets you manage 20 recipes. RECIPECHEF PRO If you enjoy the app, you can buy RecipeChef Pro. With RecipeChef Pro: • You can save an unlimited number of recipes. • Backup & Sync your recipes to the cloud. • Access your recipes and shopping list on multiple iPhones and iPads in your household (with iOS 18 or higher). If you want to share your recipes with other people in your household, you can create a single account for your household. This way, everybody will have access to the same recipe collection, shopping list, and meal planner. CONTACT & HELP Do you have any questions or do you need some help? Feel free to contact us at contact@recipechef.app Terms of service: https://recipechef.app/terms Privacy policy: https://recipechef.app/privacy

About

Tablée

Features
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Tablée remembers who ate what at your table — and warns you before you serve the same dish to the same person twice. Your recipes and your groceries revolve around that. GUEST MEMORY You put a menu together and tick who's coming. If one of them already had that dish at your place, Tablée says so, with the date. Everyone's dietary needs are kept once and for all, and each guest has a page: what they tasted, liked, and when. People who eat with you every day are left out of the warning — so the alert stays meaningful. MEAL JOURNAL A meal takes three taps: the day, the dish, the guests. Dishes without a recipe count too — steak and fries is still a meal. Restaurants are part of the journal, with your rating, and your food photos are kept with the memory. The calendar and the feed are one: tap a day, the feed goes there. MENU ASSISTANT Say who's coming. Tablée weighs the season, everyone's dietary needs, what you've already served them and what you haven't cooked in a while — then suggests a starter, a main and a dessert. Diets and allergies are excluded, not merely flagged. Swap anything with one tap. RECIPE BOOK Import from a website by pasting its address, from Safari by sharing the page, or from a cookbook by photographing it — the text is read on your iPhone, nothing leaves it. Sorted by course, filterable, with duplicate detection and a "works for" filter: gluten-free, vegetarian, pork-free… The whole book can be shared with your household. GROCERIES Send a recipe's ingredients to the list: quantities merge instead of piling up, and items file themselves by aisle, in the order you walk the store. And share the list with your household over iCloud: everyone ticks on their own iPhone and it stays in sync — receiving a shared list is free. DELIBERATELY SIMPLE No account to create, no server, no password. No calories, no nutrition, no weight tracking. No social network, no discovery feed. No weekly planner, no auto-generated menus. No subscription. YOUR DATA STAYS WITH YOU Your recipes, your meals and above all your guests live in your private iCloud, synced across your devices by Apple. There is no Tablée server: nobody, developer included, can read what you served to whom. FREE TO START, PRO FOR LIFE 50 recipes free, forever, with the full grocery list — and a 30-day Pro trial on the house. Tablée Pro is a one-time purchase, no subscription ever: unlimited recipes, the meal journal and guest memory, the menu assistant, web and photo import, multiple and shared grocery lists, themes and colours.

Screenshots

RecipeChef4 screens
Tablée4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tablée at every 6 days against RecipeChef's fortnightly. RecipeChef's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. RecipeChef sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month and Tablée sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RecipeChef ships an update fortnightly, Tablée every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
RecipeChef versus Tablée: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecipeChefTablée
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (48 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews96.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings48 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB8 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperKeo MagicTournillon

Bugs and requests

RecipeChef

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Shopping list items not updating status correctly
  • Inability to import recipes from Instagram or Facebook
  • Scan function is poor for handwritten recipes
  • Bug with category selection during slow scrolling
  • Headings in ingredient/preparation lists are recognized as quantities and increase with portion changes
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  • Inconsistent size of step numbers in preparation instructions
  • Accidental closing of edit mode leading to loss of changes
  • Limited free trial (20 recipes)
  • Scan function is poor and inaccurate
  • Error when trying to import recipes from Instagram or Facebook

Requested features

30 requests
  • Add automatic calorie calculation
  • Develop a web app for PC access
  • Improve printing options with themes and layout
  • Enable import from social media (Instagram/Facebook)
  • More advanced categorization and sub-categorization options
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  • Integration with Apple Reminders for shopping lists
  • Option to export recipes to PDF in a more attractive format
  • Ability to import recipes from screenshots
  • Add a discover feed for recipes
  • Option to hide images completely
  • Different color themes, especially for the meal planner
  • Option to choose default view preferences when opening the app
  • Circle images instead of square images
  • Calendar sync
  • Ability to copy a menu from one day to another
  • Support for Markdown in recipe editing
  • Add option to add images to instructions/preparation steps
  • Support for Apple Watch and Apple TV apps
  • Option to sort recipes by calorie count
  • Ability to create multiple shopping lists
  • Option to categorize items manually in the shopping list
  • Notification sound for the timer
  • Ability to sort recipes within cookbooks
  • Persistent filters and sorting options on the start page
  • Ability to split preparation time into different stages (prep, cook, rest)
  • Recognition of abbreviations in ingredient quantities
  • Confirmation prompt before closing edit mode with unsaved changes
  • In-app browser for opening links
  • Option to add nutritional information manually
  • Ability to search recipes by nutritional values

Tablée

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

RecipeChef

Subscriptions2
  • RecipeChef Pro - 1 Month$2.491 Month
  • RecipeChef Pro - 1 Year$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • RecipeChef Pro$39.99
1 purchases

Tablée

One-time1
  • Tablée Pro$4.99

Questions

Is RecipeChef free?
RecipeChef is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tablée free?
Tablée is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do RecipeChef or Tablée have ads?
Neither RecipeChef nor Tablée shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RecipeChef or Tablée?
RecipeChef ships an update fortnightly, and Tablée every 6 days. Most recently, RecipeChef was updated on October 25, 2026 and Tablée on October 8, 2026.

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